Winona Ryder seems to have remained in the role of Joyce Byers from “Stranger Things”, a worried mother whose younger son disappears somewhere every season. Instead of a son, Winona, who this time goes by the name Kath, will lose her boyfriend in one of those long-drawn-out and borderline lousy thrillers. From the beginning, the thriller written and directed by Eli Horowitz, one of the three creators of the “Homecoming” series, seems somehow strange, and by the end, “Gone in the Night” will turn into a rather incoherent and meaningless thriller. We meet Winona and her boyfriend Max (John Gallagher Jr.) while they are on vacation in a log cabin in the woods somewhere in the Oakland area.
But when they get there, it turns out that the cabin is already rented. The situation is quite awkward because there are a couple of young weirdos inside, Al and Greta (Owen Teague and Brianne Tju), who claim that they have paid for the accommodation in advance, but will still allow Kath and Max to spend the night there. When Kath wakes up the next morning, she finds only Al there, and he reveals to her that Max and Greta have run away together. Shocked Kath will believe that story, but a week later the devil will not give her peace as she will feel stupid because the guy just kicked her like that and will try to find out what really happened. The owner of the cabin Nicholas (Dermont Mulrenoy) will come to her aid, and the story is set non-linearly so that we will follow what happened with Max from another perspective in parallel, but “Gone in the Night” was performed not too successfully while the resolution is completely unconvincing.